Pauline Le Pichon
Nuits Blanches Series
It’s nighttime.
I crawl under the covers, hoping to quickly fall asleep.
I’m tired but something keeps me from falling into Morpheus's arms.
Sweaty hands and increasing heat, I constantly turn.
I know way too well what’s happening to me: I’ve just begun to invent scenarios based on every detail of my life. Projections rarely rational, being rather improbable. Sometimes happy stories but more often scary, suffocating ones.
It’s nighttime and I involuntarily pressed the button what if ....
Consumed by this voice in my head, I will, once again, fall asleep with difficulty. Or maybe I won’t even fall asleep.
Nuits blanches is inspired by these scenarios where I begin to make movies . A meeting, a place, an SMS ... any element of my daily life is enough to trigger my imagination. My brain becomes a cinema in which I am without wanting it, and my eyes, although open to the outside world, only see fake films inspired by real events. I stop being lucid and I struggle against myself because I’m trying to not believe those movies.
This work expresses the duality between the artist, the person obsessed with the creation of stories in her work during the day, and the other person, who is sometimes devoured by the narratives at night.
